J. Cole is inviting fans to join him for a rehearsal ahead of his special “10-Year Anniversary” performance of 2014 Forest Hills Drive at Madison Square Garden.
Taking to X this week, Dreamville co-founder Ibrahim “Ib” Hamad invited fans to come out on Friday (December 13) for an intimate rehearsal show ahead of the big concert at MSG on Monday (December 16).
“Whoever in NYC, Cole wants to do a small intimate rehearsal show tomorrow night and we want to get some real fans in there,” he wrote. “It’s gonna be a private free show so it’s first come first serve. Text REHEARSAL to this number for that info 910-335-4033. Much Love.”
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Whoever in NYC, Cole wants to do a small intimate rehearsal show tomorrow night and we want to get some real fans in there. It’s gonna be a private free show so it’s first come first serve. Text REHEARSAL to this number for that info 910-335-4033. Much Love ❤️
— Ibrahim H. (@KingOfQueenz) December 13, 2024
While the main event is sold out, resale tickets have become available here.
J. Cole is also reserving a symbolically appropriate 2,014 tickets that will be sold at just $1 each. Those tickets will be available for sale on the day of the show at a time and place that will be announced that day.
In addition to the show, Cole is commemorating the anniversary by releasing digitally eight bonus songs from the album’s sessions that were previously available only on vinyl and CD,
The “10 Year Anniversary Edition” of 2014 Forest Hills Drive, with all the bonus cuts, is available only on Cole’s Inevitable webstore — the same place his career-recapping audio series Inevitable can be found.
Cole explained the history of the bonus tracks in an Instagram post.
“Forest Hills Drive was a double album at one point in time during the finishing process,” he wrote. “This anniversary edition contains 8 of the songs that were included in that version.”
He’s also doing a physical reissue, which is available in two variants. A “10 Year Anniversary Edition” includes a blue-hued version of the original cover and four additional songs: “Home Soon,” “Die Together,” “Judgement Day” and “Winter Wonderland.”
An “Alternate Cover” edition features brand new artwork as well as a different batch of bonus tracks: “Keep Heaven Dancing,” “Miles,” “Black Man In Hollywood” and “Obviously.”
Only 2,014 copies of the “Alternate Cover” vinyl are available.
The digital edition of the record contains all eight of the aforementioned bonus cuts.
Used to respect this dude heavily just on the strength of his musical content alone even though his production’s always been mid and his lyrics are preachy at times. But lately he’s more like another Alfred Nobel. Cole’s known for creating conscious content, but in real life, he’s a toxic superficial coward. Nobel, besides having the world peace prize named after him, also invented dynamite btw.
What a well spoken hater. All those smarts but no emotional intelligence.
There is a very clear distinction between hating and being critical. Countless folks create great art, but are obnoxious posers in 3-D. It is what it is. Your comment is also hilarious because I’d stake my life on the fact I have more emotional intelligence in my little finger than you and Cole combined. Fairly certain you don’t even know what that phrase even means though you toss it around for virtue signaling purposes when it suits you and the irony is you sound like the real hater. You sound like a fool caping for a total stranger also btw and a rich celebrity at that.